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M 5.1mww

122 km E of Chignik, Alaska

· 27 km deep · released about 670 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.1 (mww)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Tsunami
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Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1401 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 670 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.1 about 670 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,400× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 56.1313, -156.4477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

59 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 3.1 116 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  2. 2.2 111 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  3. 2.5 119 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  4. 2.3 89 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  5. 2.7 116 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  6. 2.3 130 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
  7. 2.8 96 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  8. 2.4 145 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 2.2 119 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
  10. 3.0 129 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
  11. 2.3 110 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  12. 2.1 117 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  13. 2.2 129 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  14. 2.0 128 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  15. 2.0 117 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 6.9 on 2021-10-11 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

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